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Articles | Volume 16, issue 20
Articles | Volume 16, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3997-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3997-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 16, issue 20
Research article
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17 Oct 2019
Research article |  | 17 Oct 2019

N2O changes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the preindustrial – Part 1: Quantitative reconstruction of terrestrial and marine emissions using N2O stable isotopes in ice cores

Hubertus Fischer, Jochen Schmitt, Michael Bock, Barbara Seth, Fortunat Joos, Renato Spahni, Sebastian Lienert, Gianna Battaglia, Benjamin D. Stocker, Adrian Schilt, and Edward J. Brook

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N2O concentrations were subject to strong variations accompanying glacial–interglacial but also rapid climate changes over the last 21 kyr. The sources of these N2O changes can be identified by measuring the isotopic composition of N2O in ice cores and using the distinct isotopic composition of terrestrial and marine N2O. We show that both marine and terrestrial sources increased from the last glacial to the Holocene but that only terrestrial emissions responded quickly to rapid climate changes.
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